Psychological and Psychiatric Anthropology MSc

Brunel University London

Postgraduate

In Uxbridge

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Uxbridge

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Anyone interested in psychological processes, feeling and expression, memory and trauma, culture and personality, will have asked themselves questions of this kind. However, they are less likely to have asked themselves how (or if) we can recognise and analyse different emotions in other cultural settings.

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Location

Start date

Uxbridge (Middlesex)
Brunel University, UB8 3PH

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About this course

IELTS: 6.5 (min 6 in all areas)
Pearson: 58 (51 in all subscores)
BrunELT: 65% (min 60% in all areas)

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Course programme

Course Content

The MSc consists of both compulsory and optional modules, a typical selection can be found below. Modules can vary from year to year, but these offer a good idea of what we teach.

Full-time

Compulsory

  • Compulsory Reading Module: Political and Economic Issues in Anthropology
  • Compulsory Reading Module: Contemporary Anthropological Theory
  • Dissertation in Psychological and Psychiatric Anthropology
  • Ethnographic Research Methods 1
  • Ethnographic Research Methods 2
  • Themes in Psychiatric Anthropology
  • Themes in Psychological Anthropology

Optional

  • Anthropology of the Body
  • Anthropology of the Person
  • Kinship, Sex and Gender
  • The Anthropology of Childhood
  • The Anthropology of Youth
  • The Anthropology of Global Health
  • Applied Medical Anthropology in the arena of Global Health
  • Anthropology of Education
  • Anthropology of Learning
  • Ethnicity, Identity and Culture
  • Medical Anthropology in Clinical and Community Settings

Part-time

Year 1

  • Compulsory Reading Module: Political and Economic Issues in Anthropology
  • Compulsory Reading Module: Contemporary Anthropological Theory
  • Themes in Psychiatric Anthropology
  • Themes in Psychological Anthropology

Year 2

  • Dissertation in Psychological and Psychiatric Anthropology
  • Ethnographic Research Methods 1
  • Ethnographic Research Methods 2
  • and optional modules

Read more about the structure of postgraduate degrees at Brunel and what you will learn on the course.


Additional information

Teaching and Assessment Assessment Assessment is by essay, practical assignment (e.g. analysis of a short field exercise), and dissertation. There are no examinations.

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